Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given , therefore , that the company has come about essentially through private means , it must be understood as a private body , to be run by the corporators for their own self-selected purposes , and without any obligation to further the greater good . |
| 2 | Many reproduction related diseases , health impairments and deaths are preventable and can be warded off not by costly medical intervention but by following sound norms relevant to conditions of childbearing . |
| 3 | If all diabetics were looked after solely by general practitioners , undoubtedly some would be cared for by doctors without a real interest in the subject . |
| 4 | looks like not on red wine . |
| 5 | Apparently 'e 's took over there fer good . |
| 6 | He began to oppose federation , and his paper was looked on favourably by African nationalists . |
| 7 | Having bought back the service then erm that is what I referred to earlier as reckonable service . |
| 8 | These days I pay someone from Brides Haven to come over here at regular intervals to keep an eye on the place . ’ |
| 9 | This ominous escalation of tension has come amid reports that the rail blockade of Armenia and Nagorny Karabakh by Azerbaijan — partially lifted at least in recent days — has been re-imposed after fresh violence . |
| 10 | This event starts at 10.00pm in complete darkness ! |
| 11 | The principal focus of attention now turned to particular Soviet industries , calling for the analysis of specialised technical journals and monographs , which had never been looked at previously by Western researchers . |
| 12 | What has been overlooked in this debate is that , whilst Gilbert & George or Howard Hodgkin won the prize in the past , neither Bridget Riley or Gillian Ayres for example , will be looked at now as potential winners . |
| 13 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 14 | Whereas effects upon coastal processes have been long considered at least in qualitative terms , the significance of human activity in affecting permafrost as illustrated in Canada ( Brown , 1970 ) ; and in influencing endogenetic processes ( Coates , 1980 ) , by loading effects from dams and reservoirs , water injections , irrigation and structures , and by withdrawal effects due to groundwater , oil and gas , and mineral extraction , and by surface excavation effects have been appreciated more recently . |
| 15 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 16 | There are other smells to beware of apart from damp . |
| 17 | Donna Landry believes that the poem ’ … presents an iconography of paternal despotism and daughterly humiliation scarcely to be met with elsewhere in eighteenth-century verse' [ Landry , 103 ] . |
| 18 | The man must have been shot from above at close range as he emerged from under the scaffolding . |
| 19 | Light-boxes have a translucent surface and are illuminated from inside with fluorescent tubes . |
| 20 | While the courts should not be slow to protect the unwary from possible error , the transsexual is usually well able to understand what is involved in surgery , and is usually operated on only after careful screening . |
| 21 | At the time of writing , therefore , the Electricity and Gas Directives with their very limited objectives ( as seen at least through British eyes ) are blocked by a majority led by the French and the Germans . |
| 22 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 23 | Watch for greenfly in crowded conditions . |
| 24 | But it was a haste they paid for dearly in emotional terms . |
| 25 | A novelty is F£ minor , rare enough to be absent from every theorist 's list , and which Campra had used before only in passing modulations . |
| 26 | Outside an elevated railroad station men in raincoats with collars turned up and hats with brims snapped down bustled busily , coming from and going to nowhere in particular . |
| 27 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |
| 28 | Bartlett fell lbw to Batty for 37 and without addition Lathwell was stunningly caught one handed at mid-off by Batty to bring Carrick a wicket . |
| 29 | Presumably Conservative Central Office possessed another set , or got by somehow with occasional trips to Westminster Library . |
| 30 | It was twenty-five minutes after Morse had left the scene that Lewis discovered the first , fat clue : a sheet of yellow A4 paper on which the details of the Historic Cities of England Tour had been originally itemised ; and on which the time of the final item that day had been crossed through boldly in blue Biro , with the entry now reading : |